Popular moves: The incoming Lib Dems have hit the ground running at Newcastle City Council with two high-profile and popular policies.

Council leader Peter Arnold has already vowed to get tough on city centre boozing and promote a more `mature' drinking culture, a move which will have the full backing of residents plagued by drunken yobs in their community.

But the Lib Dems have gone one better again with a promise to dismantle the Lego Men statues around the Haymarket Metro station.

This modern artwork has been universally condemned by the community as an eyesore which must go.

And while previous council leaders dithered over the future of the Lego Men, despite numerous promises to dismantle it, the Lib Dems have committed themselves to getting rid of the carbuncle at the earliest opportunity.